Worry Stone

I drew I love you in the sand 

the waves took it away

you're a shadow 

an ache somewhere 

you're a rock in my heart

a stone i should throw

instead, i drew your name in the sand

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Southbury:

An icy moon hung above their silhouettes -- black satin lovers punched from a sheet of traffic haze at dinnertime on a Tuesday. They'll go home to bake a chicken, toss butter on baby carrots, and fall asleep wound around one another as if they never intend to let go.

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So Says The Sky

As lightning lights and the frightening frights

a storm comes crashing in

on thunder feet and whipping wind

a storm comes whistling in

its wild torrents swelling 

rushing runnels pouring

rain forever whispering

that it's storming once again

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Walking through a lingering summer warmth that these days easily fades, I know she's searching for a place to sleep as shadows steal the day away with an eager dusk. Autumn wakes.

I've got no name for this

a thousand times i think of you

little rips and tears

but who cares

you had that something

sunlight and diamonds

silver spilling off the moon 

you slipped through my hands

but for a little while i was there

you were something slicing through me

a million spinning blades

never mind this ache

never mind this empty hollow

for a little while i was there

with sunlight and diamonds

An Old Friend

He remembers me like i'm still there

says he feels me near

where summer's candy sunsets bled 

but that was a thousand yesterdays

the rest of it was coming

autumn's cinnamon footsteps creeping

toward bad luck and shattered dreaming

back then, when I was there

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Orion fell sideways across a black September sky near dawn, a sign of summer ending.